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shouldn’t have
taken them.”
    “Sar, I didn’t know what else to do.” His
eyes were wild, remembering. “I thought about you and about him and
about what you had to be doing and I couldn’t stand it! I couldn’t
sleep or eat.” His eyes met mine. “I thought about getting a gun
and coming to kill him.”
    I backed away from him, a look of horror on
my face. “What?”
    Theo’s features were shifting slightly. His
eyes changed from blue to yellow and back rapidly, the pupils
reforming over and over. “I knew it was wrong! I love him; he’s my
friend! Still, it kept going through my mind was that if he was
dead, you couldn’t sleep with him! He did this to you! You never
used to be like this! I used to be enough for you! We used to be
enough for each other!”
    I took a deep breath, and then made myself
hug him. “You are enough,” I said softly. “What we have is enough.”
Silently, I hoped to God that it would be.
    * * * *
    I woke up the next morning to the ringing of
the phone. “What the hell time is it?” Theo grumbled beside me.
    I looked groggily at the clock. “Seven,” I
said, sighing. “We’ve overslept. We’ll never be at Danial’s by
eight, not and have time to shower and have breakfast.”
    The phone continued to ring. Theo crawled
over to the end of the bed and swiped it off the dresser. “Yeah,”
he said grumpily into the receiver. “She’s right here.”
    I took the phone from him. “Danial?”
    “No one let me know how you were. It’s been
twenty four hours.”
    “I’m okay. I don’t feel any different.”
    Theo picked up the phone in the living
room.
    “Then can you come today sometime?” Danial
asked. “I know I told you to take a few days off, but Elle’s been
asking for you.”
    “That’s strange,” Theo said with a hint of
sarcasm. “She never has before.”
    “She had a nightmare last night,” Danial said
coldly. “She didn’t tell me much, but I gather Sar was hurt in it
badly, if not killed. The attacker was a vampire.”
    “I’m sorry,” Theo said quietly. “Is she
okay?”
    “She’s fine. She won’t admit it, but I think
the vampire in her dream was attacking her, too. I’m guessing this
is residue from Manir’s attack. She’s never mentioned anything
prior to this about being afraid of vampires, ever.”
    “We’ll be there in a little while,” Theo said
darkly. “Do you have any news on Manir’s location?”
    “I might, if you ask me nicely.”
    “Look, I deserve that for my earlier comment,
but knock off the attitude. We have enough problems without
snarling at one another.”
    “I agree,” Danial replied. “Get here as soon
as you can.”
    * * * *
    Two hours later, we arrived at Danial’s
house. Elle ran out to greet us, hurling herself into my arms.
    “Mom! Want to go for a walk?”
    I hugged her. “Sure, Honey.”
    Theo came around the truck in a rush and
grabbed her. “Can I come, too?” he said, tickling her. She laughed,
squirming all over, trying to get away. “Or is this a girls’ only
outing?”
    “No,” she said seriously. “You can come. I
just thought you had duty tonight, so you had to rest all day.”
    “Who said that?” Theo asked.
    “Brian was talking to Danial.”
    Theo shot a look to me. “Why don’t you go
ahead with Mom, Elle? I’ll catch up to you.”
    Elle grabbed my hand and began leading me
down the path. With bird guide in hand, she began showing me not
only many birds, but also the tracks of many other animals in the
moist forest floor.
    “You’re very smart,” I said proudly. “There
aren’t many kids your age who know as much as you do.”
    “What do other kids do?” she asked.
    Watch TV and play video games . “Waste
their time with things that don’t matter.”
    “I wish I had more friends.”
    “You will,” I said quickly. “Aran Jr.’s
getting older, and your brother—”
    “I want girl friends,” Elle said peevishly.
“They’re boys.”
    That was impossible right